Mid-Atlantic Needs THREE Pilots Now

[GCD]

BaronFR8Dog,

Using another airline's jumpseat for your company's business violates to basic intent of jumpseat offering. If a captain ever finds out that you are using his jumpseat for your company's business, and not for your own commuting travel, he may ruin your day. It's possible that you and other pilots with your company may be banned from future jumpseats.

I understand that you are young and eager, but learn the business. There are some on this forum willing to shoot you down very quickly. However, there are many more of us willing to help you learn the business.

 

[BaronFR8Dog]

GCD,

Eager, yes. Young, I wish. I'm 41 and didn't get my commercial until I was 39 so yes, I am on the same career level as those 15 years younger. This job is my first experience having jumpseat priveliges.

Please clarify something. When I said that I used Southwest for "company business" that one time, I mean that I simply flew from home to the city in which I was to work the next day. I see pilots jumpseating all the time on airlines going to duty stations or home from a tour, so is that what you mean by "your own commuting travel." I have had captains I checked in with make small talk with me and ask "going home or going to work." I've answered both ways with no problems.

Thanks!

 

[SabreFlyR]

I can see your point especially if you live away from the home base-GSO, but they should still buy the ticket to report to a work assignment and the ticket home at the end of that assignment. If you traveled back and forth between the beginning and the end then it would be legit to use the jumpseat.

No I am not a disgruntled former employee. I spent a few years there long ago and I know that most of that management team has now gone on to bigger and better things also. But the standard operating procedure then, especially for out based crews to come to GSO for recurrent training was to "try and jumpseat and if you can't we'll buy the ticket".
You could always tell when a recurrent class was going to start, several of us would always show up in uniform passing thru CLT trying to jumpseat our way to GSO.

I sure hope you guys make more money than we did then, I remember having to do all that D@mn loading by ourselves on the Airborne and UPS runs. IT SUCKED! But the maintenance was great then also, nothing went unfixed more than a day or so.
As for working there, never had a problem, like being based away from GSO, never heard from anyone other than talking to the dispatchers.

 

[CapnMatt]

BaronFR8Dog, did you work at FLX?

 

[BaronFR8Dog]

Matt, yes I did and it made a man out of me and put hair on my chest. Is this the Matt I talked to a few weeks ago? Former 420? I was 803.

 

[GCD]

Commuting to and from work or home is one of the purposes of the jumpseat, so no problem there. It is when the company needs to move you around for their business, and they ask you to use a jumpseat: that is a problem.

I saw two pilots trying to get from DAL to AMA so one could give a checkride to the other. That was for their company, not personal commuting use. What's worse, is I was trying to get to AMA for my grandmother's funeral, and the two boneheads were trying to force me out of the jumpseat. The SWA captain simply told them to go buy tickets, and I got my ride to AMA.